We've had some terrible weather here over the last week. Another foot and a half (39 cm) of snow is on the ground and some freezing rain was added to it. Luckily both my antenna have survived the wind and ice, but not much operating was done.
So today started with this strange golden yellow ball hanging in a beautiful deep blue sky, something we haven't seen for a few weeks now.....time to get out and play radio!!
It was still very cold, -20C in the wind, and the wind was gusting to 35 kph, so it had quite the bite to it. I chose to go to Lemoine's Point, VE-5141, which is fairly close to my QTH. With the bad propagation we have suffered through this past week I wasn't sure how the bands would be.
Propagation this morning was:
SFI=130, SN=87, A Index=32, and the K Index=3.....so it was going to be interesting. Lot's of very deep QSB rounded things off.
Once again I stuck with 20m using the Hamstick, KX3 and 10w. Really, I didn't think I was going to have much luck today operating....but it was nice just to get out of the house with a radio!
What an activation I had! I put EA1FIC, Spain, and CU3HY, the Azores, in the log along with 26 US states and 2 Canadian provinces. It turned out to be a great day. The QSB was pretty deep at times, and I must apologize for the couple that I just could not work because of it.
Here's todays QSO map:
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